Dec 28 2025 to Dec 28 2025 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Atta Galatta

178, 5th Main Road, 1st Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Event Description

Author Subhashini Kaligotla launches her new poetry collection My Life Closed Twice (Copper Coin, 2025), with Jeet Thayil.

In My Life Closed Twice, Subhashini Kaligotla charts the long aftermath of grief, and its recursive, obsessive cadences. Drawing on premodern India’s art, literature, and history, through invented forms and received ones, in fragments, litanies, lists, and queries, the poems in this spare volume embody the psychological terrain of the grieving. Two premature deaths are at the heart of the book. Kaligotla writes of their immediate aftereffects and their enduring impact. She braids her voice with voices from India’s past—from the unknown bards of the Sanskrit epics who counsel equanimity in the face of catastrophe to the laments of Ashoka, Bilhana, and Jahangir.

Author Bio

Subhashini Kaligotla is a poet and an art historian of ancient and medieval South Asia. She is the author of the poetry collection Bird of the Indian Subcontinent and the monograph Shiva’s Waterfront Temples. She teaches at Columbia, dividing her time between New York City and Hyderabad.